Brave (movie)

Disney extended its Oscar dominance in the animated feature category with a win for "Big Hero 6," the futuristic movie about a young boy who loses his brother but finds friendship with a robot. "Our biggest challenge is always story," Roy Conli, one of the movie's producers, said backstage at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. "The story is the ultimate thing you try to tackle." FULL COVERAGE: Oscars 2015 The "Big Hero 6" filmmakers are all Disney veterans. "We've all been at Disney for about 20 years," said Chris Williams, who co-directed the movie. Disney/Pixar has taken the majority of awards in...

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Disney extended its Oscar dominance in the animated feature category with a win for "Big Hero 6," the futuristic movie about a young boy who loses his brother but finds friendship with a robot.
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Scotland’s independence referendum on Thursday carries plenty of significance for the country and the world beyond. But regardless of your leanings on the IndyRef, Scotland has pretty much already won on the cinema stage, where a country of just 5 million...

Invitations were sent to 271 individuals to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Thursday. They gain entry to the academy by earning an Oscar nomination, by getting two members to pen recommendations or by receiving an...

Where does a franchise called "How to Train Your Dragon" go after said dragon is already trained? The second installment in the DreamWorks Animation series, written and directed by Dean DeBlois and featuring the voices of Jay Baruchel and Cate...

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On the heels of his soon-to-be-concluded run on “Breaking Bad,” Bryan Cranston plans to play blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in a drama about the Hollywood Ten scribe.
Trumbo, who died in 1976, was a novelist and screenwriter who refused to...

The Walt Disney Co. is pushing back "The Good Dinosaur," the Pixar movie that had been set for release in 2014, making next year the animation studio's first without a feature film since 2005.
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Remember the days when Pixar meant perfection? When you could count on its animation to amaze, its stories to sweep you up?
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A collection of cute furry creatures will smother the undead this weekend, as "Monsters University" is expected to top zombie tale "World War Z" and several holdovers at the box office, including "Man of Steel."The new...

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It wasn’t that long ago when Disney was struggling to revive a moribund animation division while its powerhouse subsidiary Pixar was on a serious roll.
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Count Jon Stewart among the many thousands of parents and moviegoers unimpressed by Disney’s controversial makeover of “Brave” heroine Merida.
In case you missed it, last weekend Merida was officially inducted into

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Merida, the feisty, outdoorsy heroine of Pixar's 2012 animated film "Brave," was many a parent's dream come true. In an era in which girls are often hypersexualized in...

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